Anthony Baré, former high performance analyst, has been appointed to lead the prestigious Olympic sprint pole in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.
A strategic appointment, announced by Florian Rousseau on the sidelines of the French Track Championships in Loudéac, to try to restore the image of the French sprint, in crisis since the last Worlds.
The arrival of Anthony Baré takes place in a delicate context. The sector, suffering, left the Worlds and the Olympic Games empty-handed, while the former national coach Grégory Baugé, an emblematic figure of French sprinting, left his post in October, against a backdrop of tensions with certain male runners. Baré, familiar with the federal ecosystem where he has worked since 2017, will now have to build a dynamic capable of restoring color to France on the world stage.
However, the position of national coach, the keystone of the system, remains vacant. Anthony Baré inherits a mission focused on developing talents within the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines hub, while the selection and direct supervision of the France team remains to be defined. “My role will be to help the athletes of the pole to achieve the selection criteria to make the colors of France shine,” he confided.
